River Landscape with Ferry — Salomon van Ruysdael

Salomon van Ruysdael. Painted 1649.

With four horses, five dogs, two cows and eleven people on board, this slender ferry appears to be heavily loaded. The boats in the distance are also crowded with passengers. Salomon van Ruysdael was the interpreter par excellence of the flat, watery Dutch landscape. Here he used a dried-and-tested compositional formula: at right, a bank lined with tall trees, and at left, a body of water stretching out to the horizon.

From the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

panel, oil paint (paint) · Original size: 126 × 91 cm · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Print: 119 × 85.9 cm, printed on Hahnemühle FineArt archival cotton paper. Museum-grade reproduction quality, true to the colours and detail of the original work.

Frame (optional): a custom-made wooden frame in a matte black finish, cut to the exact dimensions of this print, with an off-white passe-partout mat and protective glazing. Ready to hang.

Source: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200477322. Image released under CC0 by the Rijksmuseum.